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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Saint \Saint\ (s[=a]nt), noun [F., fr. L. sanctus sacred, properly p. p. of sancire to render sacred by a religious act, to appoint as sacred; akin to sacer sacred. Cf. {Sacred}, {Sanctity}, {Sanctum}, {Sanctus}.]
1. A person sanctified; a holy or godly person; one eminent for piety and virtue; any true Christian, as being redeemed and consecrated to God.
Them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints. --1 Cor. i. 2.
2. One of the blessed in heaven.
Then shall thy saints, unmixed, and from the impure Far separate, circling thy holy mount, Unfeigned hallelujahs to thee sing. --Milton.
3. (Eccl.) One canonized by the church. [Abbrev. St.]
{Saint Andrew's cross}. (a) A cross shaped like the letter X. See Illust. 4, under {Cross}. (b) (Bot.) A low North American shrub ({Ascyrum Crux-Andre[ae]}, the petals of which have the form of a Saint Andrew's cross. --Gray.
{Saint Anthony's cross}, a T-shaped cross. See Illust. 6, under {Cross}.
{Saint Anthony's fire}, the erysipelas; -- popularly so called because it was supposed to have been cured by the intercession of Saint Anthony.
{Saint Anthony's nut} (Bot.), the groundnut ({Bunium flexuosum}); -- so called because swine feed on it, and St. Anthony was once a swineherd. --Dr. Prior.
{Saint Anthony's turnip} (Bot.), the bulbous crowfoot, a favorite food of swine. --Dr. Prior.
{Saint Barnaby's thistle} (Bot.), a kind of knapweed ({Centaurea solstitialis}) flowering on St. Barnabas's Day, June 11th. --Dr. Prior.
{Saint Bernard} (Zo["o]l.), a breed of large, handsome dogs celebrated for strength and sagacity, formerly bred chiefly at the Hospice of St. Bernard in Switzerland, but now common in Europe and America. There are two races, the smooth-haired and the rough-haired. See Illust. under {Dog}.
{Saint Catharine's flower} (Bot.), the plant love-in-a-mist. See under {Love}.
{Saint Cuthbert's beads} (Paleon.), the fossil joints of crinoid stems.
{Saint Dabeoc's heath} (Bot.), a heatherlike plant ({Dab[oe]cia polifolia}), named from an Irish saint.
{Saint Distaff's Day}. See under {Distaff}.
{Saint Elmo's fire}, a luminous, flamelike appearance, sometimes seen in dark, tempestuous nights, at some prominent point on a ship, particularly at the masthead and the yardarms. It has also been observed on land, and is due to the discharge of electricity from elevated or pointed objects. A single flame is called a {Helena}, or a {Corposant}; a double, or twin, flame is called a {Castor and Pollux}, or a {double Corposant}. It takes its name from St. Elmo, the patron saint of sailors.
{Saint George's cross} (Her.), a Greek cross gules upon a field argent, the field being represented by a narrow fimbriation in the ensign, or union jack, of Great Britain.
{Saint George's ensign}, a red cross on a white field with a union jack in the upper corner next the mast. It is the distinguishing badge of ships of the royal navy of England; -- called also {the white ensign}. --Brande & C.
{Saint George's flag}, a smaller flag resembling the ensign, but without the union jack; used as the sign of the presence and command of an admiral. [Eng.] --Brande & C.
{Saint Gobain glass} (Chem.), a fine variety of soda-lime plate glass, so called from St. Gobain in France, where it was manufactured.
{Saint Ignatius's bean} (Bot.), the seed of a tree of the Philippines ({Strychnos Ignatia}), of properties similar to the nux vomica.
{Saint James's shell} (Zo["o]l.), a pecten ({Vola Jacob[ae]us}) worn by pilgrims to the Holy Land. See Illust. under {Scallop}.
{Saint James's-wort} (Bot.), a kind of ragwort ({Senecio Jacob[ae]a}).
{Saint John's bread}. (Bot.) See {Carob}.
{Saint John's-wort} (Bot.), any plant of the genus {Hypericum}, most species of which have yellow flowers; -- called also {John's-wort}.
{Saint Leger}, the name of a race for three-year-old horses run annually in September at Doncaster, England; -- instituted in 1776 by Col. St. Leger.
{Saint Martin's herb} (Bot.), a small tropical American violaceous plant ({Sauvagesia erecta}). It is very mucilaginous and is used in medicine.
{Saint Martin's summer}, a season of mild, damp weather frequently prevailing during late autumn in England and the Mediterranean countries; -- so called from St. Martin's Festival, occurring on November 11. It corresponds to the Indian summer in America. --Shak. --Whittier.
{Saint Patrick's cross}. See Illust. 4, under {Cross}.
{Saint Patrick's Day}, the 17th of March, anniversary of the death (about 466) of St. Patrick, the apostle and patron saint of Ireland.
{Saint Peter's fish}. (Zo["o]l.) See {John Dory}, under {John}.
{Saint Peter's-wort} (Bot.), a name of several plants, as {Hypericum Ascyron}, {H. quadrangulum}, {Ascyrum stans}, etc.
{Saint Peter's wreath} (Bot.), a shrubby kind of Spir[ae]a ({S. hypericifolia}), having long slender branches covered with clusters of small white blossoms in spring.
{Saint's bell}. See {Sanctus bell}, under {Sanctus}.
{Saint Vitus's dance} (Med.), chorea; -- so called from the supposed cures wrought on intercession to this saint.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Saint \Saint\ (s[=a]nt), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Sainted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sainting}.] To make a saint of; to enroll among the saints by an offical act, as of the pope; to canonize; to give the title or reputation of a saint to (some one).
A large hospital, erected by a shoemaker who has been beatified, though never sainted. --Addison.
{To saint it}, to act as a saint, or with a show of piety.
Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it. --Pope.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Saint \Saint\, verb (used without an object) To act or live as a saint. [R.] --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
saint
noun
1: a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization
2: person of exceptional holiness [syn: {holy man}, {holy person}, {angel}]
3: model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal [syn: {ideal}, {paragon}, {nonpareil}, {apotheosis}, {nonesuch}, {nonsuch}]
verb
1: hold sacred [syn: {enshrine}]
2: in the Catholic church; declare (a dead person) to be a saint; "After he was shown to have performed a miracle, the priest was canonized" [syn: {canonize}, {canonise}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
112 Moby Thesaurus words for "saint": Ambrose of Milan, Athanasius, Barnabas, Basil, Christian, Clement of Alexandria, Clement of Rome, Cyprian of Carthage, Cyril of Jerusalem, God-fearing man, Gregory of Nyssa, Hermas, Ignatius, Irenaeus, Jerome, John, John Chrysostom, Justin Martyr, Lactantius Firmianus, Luke, Mark, Origen, Papias, Paul, Peter, Polycarp, Tertullian, accepter, aggrandize, angel, angel of light, angel of love, ante-Nicene Fathers, apostle, apotheose, apotheosize, archangel, beatified soul, beatify, believer, bless, canonize, canonized mortal, catechumen, celestial, cherub, cherubim, churchgoer, churchite, churchman, cleanse, communicant, consecrate, convert, crown, daily communicant, dedicate, deify, devote, devotee, devotionalist, disciple, elevate, ennoble, enshrine, enthrone, evangelist, exalt, fanatic, follower, frock, glamorize, glorify, good Christian, great soul, guru, hallow, heavenly being, holy man, immortalize, lionize, magnify, mahatma, make legendary, martyr, messenger of God, neophyte, ordain, patron saint, pietist, principality, proselyte, purify, raise, receiver, recording angel, religionist, rishi, sanctify, saved soul, seraph, seraphim, set apart, set up, soul in glory, starets, theist, throne, truster, uplift, votary, zealot
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
SAINT
1. {Symbolic Automatic INTegrator}. 2. {Security Administrator's Integrated Network Tool}. (2000-07-11)
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
SAINT, noun A dead sinner revised and edited. The Duchess of Orleans relates that the irreverent old calumniator, Marshal Villeroi, who in his youth had known St. Francis de Sales, said, on hearing him called saint: "I am delighted to hear that Monsieur de Sales is a saint. He was fond of saying indelicate things, and used to cheat at cards. In other respects he was a perfect gentleman, though a fool."
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Saint one separated from the world and consecrated to God; one holy by profession and by covenant; a believer in Christ (Ps. 16:3; Rom. 1:7; 8:27; Phil. 1:1; Heb. 6:10). The "saints" spoken of in Jude 1:14 are probably not the disciples of Christ, but the "innumerable company of angels" (Heb. 12:22; Ps. 68:17), with reference to Deut. 33:2. This word is also used of the holy dead (Matt. 27:52; Rev. 18:24). It was not used as a distinctive title of the apostles and evangelists and of a "spiritual nobility" till the fourth century. In that sense it is not a scriptural title.
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